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Star Lisp would be great for the modern heterogeneous computing landscape, and being compiled.
by pjmlp 4mo ago
Star Lisp would be great for the modern heterogeneous computing landscape, and being compiled.
- richev 4mo agoCan you explain this as Richard would have?
- pjmlp 4mo agoHe probably would pointed out books like this, https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262192774/the-paralation-model/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262192774/the-paralation-model/
- convolvatron 4mo agoI agree that something like *lisp would be a welcome relief from the hairball that is CUDA. while the lisp part was actually compiled, the parallel part reduced pretty 1:1 onto Paris, (the 'assembly language' designed by Steele). that was was basically a jump table into the microcode, which was just a big control word issued by (what I remember vaguely was being an amd 2900 bit slice) sequencer. today I guess you'd translate those vector instruction into MLIR and hope for some layout and fusion. but absolutely, you can just use tensors like normal variables. what a awful regression